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Originally Posted by CaptHawkeye
Most people who know WW2 already know that Churchill was an idiot. He was the moron who virtually forced the allies to undertake the disasterously stupid Italian and Sicilian invasions that ended up stalling Overlord for well over a year. D-Day could have happened in 1943 and it would have been a hell of a lot easier since the Atlantic Wall was still largely unfinished and most the defense force in France was still using pre-war equipment. No Tigers or even long barrel Panzer 4s to be had. Then he tried to push an invasion of Greece, at that point allied commanders basically stopped listening to him.
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this is somewhat revisionist too, and many in the free world do not cherish those calling Churchill an idiot. He was no great strategist, but by his intransigence and leadership the war was fought by the British Commonwealth alone for a year before anyone else cared to join in, and let us not forget that every other party that was subsequently at war with Germany was not troubled to do so until the Axis declared war on them. So up their own a$$es were their heads. Had Britain, and Churchill, been more like these other countries, perhaps we would have signed the deal Hitler wanted to offer us.
As for a 1943 invasion of France, it was scotched because Germany was not the only party that was not yet ready, and furthermore the Russians had not yet had time to destroy most of the German army.
Yet the Russians needed something to be done by the Western Allies who appeared to Stalin to be enjoying the show a touch too much, so Italy was chosen as a softer touch than German controlled France.
Anyway, what do people think of the fact that Pat Buchanon is also on the Unnecessary War bandwagon? I mean this guy is a former presidential candidate, right? A much, much more serious publication than the equivalent from some literary lightweight that few had heard of before.